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February 11, 2018

As much as I enjoy the Aloe blazoning the page, I get tired of the same image lasting very long: my life is just a little too dynamic for that, dontcha know?

I will replace the firebird Aloe with a wispy image of weeping snowdrops, which better reflect my sadness at my country, suffering under the incubus of the worst political administration imaginable. The slaughter of 18 teachers and Children in Parkland School, Florida occurred two days ago. The murderer was apparently active in a white supremacist militia...

The response to all this is the usual Republican eyewash, as they gutted the American For Disabilities Act and continued their greedy rapine of America's resources for their personal benefit.

I know, I know: you read my blog for the pretty flower pictures. Well, right now the American Landscape is wintry and bleak.

I will conclude with the URL of a remarkable scholar who conducts two blogs I love--one focusing on Eastern Mediterranean History in the late middle ages and renaissance. The other is an ongoing anthology of poetry--much of it new to me: I found this poem stunningly apropos: so many of us can identify with that man in the mask...